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Extra, Extra: How Cornell Hustled To Win NYC Tech Campus


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Jen Chung

Published Dec 26, 2011

Modified Dec 26, 2011


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  • The NY Times has the inside story on how Cornell and Technion won the big NYC high-tech campus bid—when Cornell told the city it had a $350 million gift for the project, "You could have heard a pin drop in that room."
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Jen Chung co-created Gothamist in 2002 with Jake Dobkin, establishing it as a website about New York City and everything that happens in it and an essential must-read for New Yorkers. She also launched sites across the country and world, including DCist, LAist, and Londonist. She loves learning about NYC arcana and meeting bodega cats. She is currently Senior Editor of NYC Accountability in the Gothamist + WNYC newsroom.

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